Geoff Ford
Head Of Engineering at EDT
Greater Brisbane Area Australia
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Top SchoolGeoff Ford is a results-driven Head of Engineering with 16 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, infrastructure automation, and customer-focused software across finance, HR services, and networking. He blends hands-on expertise in containers, APIs and DevOps with proven leadership—scaling teams, mentoring engineers, and introducing modern tooling and practices in both startup and enterprise settings. Geoff has led technical strategy from product owner roles to CTO, delivering lean Agile outcomes while driving platform adoption and human-centred design for cloud initiatives. Notable strengths include designing containerisation platforms and automating cloud/on‑prem infrastructure using Ansible and AWS at scale. Based in Greater Brisbane, he combines operational rigor from data‑centre and networking stewardship with a developer’s mindset for continuous delivery. Colleagues know him for pragmatically turning complex infrastructure challenges into reliable, repeatable systems.
16 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
IT, Security, IT, Security at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)Dakabin State High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
toy-language10
hackage9
haskell9
compiler6
css-modules6
node-redis6
react6
nodejs6
css6
css-loader6
javascript6
redis6
xml5
netlify4
rest3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
g-ford/xml_models2
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:55 commits in 2 months
xmlbackedrestrest-apirest-apis
g-ford/cradle
Jan 2010 - Feb 2020
Let's Build a Compiler (in Haskell)
Contributions:125 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 years 3 months
compilerhackagehaskellletcrenshaw
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